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Dodging deadly snakes, poisoned darts and sadistic Nazis, Indiana Jones will dash into living rooms across the U.S and Canada this week. Paramount is releasing the eagerly awaited home video cassette of the 1981 blockbuster movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Retailers, already besieged by Indiana Jones fans and convinced that Raiders will quickly become the alltime home-video champ, have ordered a record 420,000 copies of the cassette. The two top video cassettes until now, Jane Fonda's Workout and Flashdance, have racked up sales of about 200,000 each...
Raiders will give new momentum to an industry already shifting into fast forward. Some 8 million video cassettes will be sold this year, up 33% from 1982. Paramount has helped spark the surge by slashing videotape prices. In February the company brought out An Officer and a Gentleman at $39.95, far less than the standard $59.95-to-$79.95 price tag for hit movies. The cassette quickly sold 80,000 copies at a time when sales of 25,000 were considered the video equivalent of earning a gold record. Paramount has had several other $39.95 smashes, including Star Trek...
Restoring freedom and democracy, explained President Reagan, were paramount objectives of American intervention. Consequently, Grenada Governor-General Paul Scoon's proclamation last Thursday to enact sweeping restrictions on personal and press freedoms surprised the Administration. Citing a 1968 "state of emergency" law, Scoon banned public meetings, allowed searches without warrant, and established measures to censor the press. Moreover, American troops have rounded up over a thousand Grenadian civilians suspected of sympathizing with slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. These detained Grenadians, questioned on their anti-Western beliefs and political activities, are kept in isolation cells under heavy guard. Relying on local...
Embarrassing? The Secretary of State certainly thought so. Filled in by phone last week while traveling to Japan with President Reagan, an irate George Shultz immediately ordered a full-scale investigation. Of paramount concern was not just how the security breach occurred, but how far it went: the State Department could not guarantee that every scrap of secret information had been recovered...
...PROBLEM? Simply this-the world is a big place. With a fixed number of ready ships, planes, and men, only a fixed piece of territory or ocean can be covered at any time. American policy makers must keep the paramount considerations uppermost in their planning. If United States forces ever find themselves spread too thinly, and a truly dangerous situation develops, then a real crisis could threaten the world. This point has not yet been reached, to the Administration's credit. But this week's events show the potential danger all too clearly...